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New projects advance health equity research
Two $1M grants support efforts to pinpoint novel prostate cancer biomarkers, improve clinical trial enrollment and inclusion
Question? Answers from our cancer experts
Does growing up in a household with smokers qualify someone for a low-dose CT lung cancer screening?
Research into targeted treatments, better prediction models in breast cancer funded
Breast Cancer Research Foundation continues support for research by Fred Hutch/UW/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium physicians and scientists
How do we increase equity in cancer care?
HICOR’s Value in Cancer Care Summit brings together stakeholders to discuss barriers, pain points and solutions
Being your own caregiver during cancer
Friends, siblings, support groups and social media can all make a huge difference for patients ‘cancering’ on their own
3 new grants power colorectal cancer studies
Research will focus on CRC in Alaska Native people, gene + environment interactions and how systemic racism impacts care
Smoking cessation trial for American Indian and Alaska Native people funded
Digital intervention to focus on ethnic groups with ‘highest rates of commercial cigarette smoking’ in the U.S.
International symposium focuses on lobular breast cancer
Clinicians, researchers and patients from around the world gather in Pittsburgh to honor Seattle advocate, discuss understudied disease
First Lady Jill Biden: ‘Your work will change and save lives’
MET-X research lab tour and Cancer Moonshot ‘listening session’ on survivorship and pediatric cancer highlight First Lady's visit to Fred Hutch
Cancer care: From ‘sledgehammer’ to precision cellular therapy
AACR progress report: new immunotherapies improve outcomes, but access to care and clinical trials for many still lags
New study of Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations gets $38.7M grant
Fred Hutch will act as coordinating center for large study of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in overlooked populations
Don’t forget the F/U after your lung cancer screening
Fred Hutch study finds nearly half of people with ‘positive’ lung cancer screening CTs had delays in their follow-up, advancing disease in some
Sleep can be a cancer patient’s best elixir
Treatments, stress can be challenges to getting consistent, quality sleep; talk to your doctor if you’re tossing and turning
Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community
From structural barriers and binary patient forms to gendered diseases, ‘queer cancer’ can be fraught with bias and bad assumptions
ASCO 2023 highlights: Fine-tuning cancer care
Annual oncology meeting emphasizes less-toxic treatments, more precision oncology and new ways to reduce collateral damage
Pinpointing pain: Is it cancer or cancer treatment?
Distinguishing side effects of treatment from a potential metastatic recurrence can be tricky; we asked cancer experts for their best advice
Fred Hutch pioneer Dr. Beverly Torok-Storb dies
Beloved mentor and bone marrow biologist created pathways for both blood cancer cures and marginalized students
Building health equity in big ways and small
Pathways to Equity Symposium highlights need for individual efforts, community collaborations and systemic change to improve outcomes
Going long: Viruses linger with lasting impact
Herpes, HIV, Epstein-Barr and other viruses hang around, causing potential long-term health woes. Should ‘long COVID’ surprise us?
Fred Hutch expands nurse navigation, ACE clinic
Goals of nurse navigation and new Montlake acute care clinic: improved patient experience, reduced emergency visits